Wellness Corner

Continuum EAP's Wellness corner features a different wellness topic each quarter. This webpage provides valuable information, resources and links related to the featured wellness topic.

May 2008—Quarterly Wellness Corner Topic:  Emotional Fitness

Fitness.  What usually comes to mind when we hear this word is—physical exercise, low heart rates and muscled strong bodies.  There is another type of fitness however, that is often overlooked but critically important to overall well being—“emotional fitness”.  Emotional fitness refers to our ability to identify our feelings and express them, have tolerance and empathy toward others, gain and maintain self awareness and be assertive about our needs.  In his recent book Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman emphasizes that the stronger we are in our emotional intelligence the more successful we are likely to be.  Continuum-Well Being has chosen emotional fitness as the first topic for our Wellness Corner feature.  Please check out the following resources if you would like to learn more about or improve your Emotional Fitness.

Continuum HelpNet On-Line Services—Resources

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Articles

• Attitude is Everything to Improving Outlook on Life This Continuum HelpNet article is in printable .pdf format as a courtesy to our member who do not yet subscribe to HelpNet.
• Men: Don’t Let Anger Kill You!  Under Emotional Well-Being select Personal Growth, then Article/Tips and the article can be found under Increasing Self Discipline in the middle of the screen.

Assessments

• Emotional IQ Test
• Self Esteem Test

 Both of these assessments can be found under Emotional Well-Being select Personal Growth, then Assessments and the link can be found under Stronger You in the middle of the screen.

Audio

• Assertiveness Under Emotional Well-Being select Personal Growth, then Audio and the file can be found under Stronger You in the middle of the screen.

Skill Builders

• Recognizing and Managing Anger

• Appreciating Personality Differences

Both of these on-line training programs can be found under Emotional Well-Being select Personal Growth, then Skill Builders and the training can be found under Resilient You in the middle of the screen.

Other Resources

Books

Emotional Fitness Conditioning:  An Action Plan for Lifelong Emotional Health, Ronald L. Bergman, PhD

Emotional Fitness for Couples, Barton Goldsmith

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

Web Resources

• Authentic Happiness Inventory Questionnaire
• General Happiness Questionnaire

These surveys can be found at www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu. You will be asked complete a free registration as the information will be used in on-going research. Your identity will be kept confidential.

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